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Ironic though how Sun spent the last 20years trying to persuade companies that networks of Unix mini-computers were a cheap reliable alternative to mainframes - yet when it comes to putting disks in boxes you need to have everything stamped with the magic 'enterprise' badge.

If you believed their spin presumably you would buy from a proper enterprise company like IBM or EDC - not some failed workstation vendor.

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If you look at SANs in general, Sun undercuts that whole space, especially if you look at what they do with the 7000 series which combine SSDs and HDDs.

http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/unified_storage/

The 7000 series is an incredibly cool system, and it's definitely giving NetApp/EMC a run for their money.

That said, it's still really expensive if you're willing to go that extra mile and design your own system for your needs. And it's really not that hard.

Yeah I totally agree it's expensive - though compared to the other enterprise storage solutions it's cheap. That said people should be making cheaper solutions when you don't that enterprise level system - especially if you can handle the failures in your software stack.

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